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A forum was held last Tuesday titled Freedom of Expression in the University: Rights and Challenges, which explored freedom of expression on college campuses and the ideas of civility and respect. A panel consisting of Professor of Law Vik Amar, Professor of Law Alan Brownstein, UC Davis Civility Project affiliate Jaki Joanino, UC Davis Civility Project affiliate […]

At the ASUCD Senate meeting last Thursday, a bill that would increase the amount of funds granted to community-specific ceremonies was passed unanimously. The bill (SB 89), which was revised from a previous version (SB 67), will distribute money to six graduation groups through the reallocation of unused reserves, as opposed to unused grants. The […]

In September 2005, as part of the Safer California Universities study and newly formed Safe Party Initiative, a Safe Party website was created. This year, the website has been revamped and optimized for iOS and Android, allowing students easier access to the website on their phones. “‘Party throwers’ and ‘party goers’ can find out how […]

ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the clock at the April 12, 2012 meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room. The ASUCD president is not required to attend senate meetings. Meeting called to order at 6:14 p.m. Rebecca Sterling, ASUCD president, present, arrived late, left […]

UC Davis is renowned for its dedication to sustainability, and this includes all aspects of campus life — including fashion. The Student Fashion Association will be presenting its annual charity fashion show, Bloom: Sustaining the Lifestyle, Friday evening with a focus on sustainability and environmental consciousness. “UC Davis is known for its commitment to sustainability […]

“American pop culture is stupid. It takes Jeremy Lin to make the media go hog wild.” These are the words of famed civil rights journalist K.W. Lee on the New York Knicks point guard. Lee, a Korean American, is not impressed with his fellow Asian American’s rise to fame in both the Asian community and […]

On Saturday, the annual Relay For Life at UC Davis celebrates its ninth year of fundraising and bringing the Davis community together to support the fight against cancer. Due to weather conditions, the event has been relocated to the ARC Pavilion. The 24-hour fundraiser for the American Cancer Society celebrates survivors, remembers those lost to […]

On Saturday, UC Davis students will be found playing a campuswide game of Capture the Flag, meeting on the West Quad at 1 p.m. “When we say campuswide, we mean campuswide,” said ASUCD Senator Justin Goss, a co-director of the event. As part of his ASUCD platform, Goss promised a campus Capture the Flag game. […]

Anthropological Cheater A first-year was referred to Student Judicial Affairs for allegedly plagiarizing an essay in a lower-division anthropology class. The matter came to the teaching assistant’s attention when she noticed that one paragraph of the essay was significantly better written and more accurate than the rest of the essay. The TA then discovered that […]

The results from the pepper spray task force chaired by former California Supreme Court Associate Justice Cruz Reynoso were released publicly Wednesday at noon. The task force held a meeting for the public in the afternoon to discuss the findings. “We aren’t making anyone happy with our report. We find there is a lot that […]

Last Thursday, ASUCD President Rebecca Sterling announced that ASUCD has been exempted from the UC Davis Shared Services Center. The Shared Services Center, which is intended to centralize all campus services in order to make them more efficient, would have cost ASUCD $235,560 a year. Sterling argued that if ASUCD had been forced to join […]

Work on the designing of a new mural for the Student Community Center (SCC) has been halted after facing criticism from SCC stakeholders and community members. The mural, which was to be painted on the North Wall of the SCC, was a quarter-long project of the Winter quarter Chicano/a Studies 171: Mural Workshop class. The […]